young Children Houston Parent-Child Development Center
Mother-Child Home Program of Verbal Interaction Project
Parent-Child Interaction Training
High/Scope Preschool Curriculum Comparison Study (including Distar)
Perry Preschool Program (using High/ Scope curriculum)
I Can Problem Solve: Interpersonal Cognitive Problem-Solving Program
Selective/ Economic deprivation, academic
N=~700 failure, early behavior
problems, poor family management practices
Selective/ Academic failure, economic
N=156 deprivation, poor family
management practices, early behavior problems
Indicated/ Economic deprivation, early
N=105 behavior problems, poor
family management practices, maternal depressive symptoms
Selective/ Academic failure, early behavior
N=68 problems, economic
deprivation
Selective/ Academic failure, economic
N=123 deprivation, early behavior
problems, low commitment to school
Selective/ Economic deprivation, poor
N=219 impulse control, early
(N=60 in behavior problems pilot study)
Better family management practices, fewer behavior problems
Better family management practices, better cognitive competence
Johnson, 1991, 1990
Levenstein, 1992, 1984
Lower rates of attention deficits Strayhorn, 1991 and conduct problems
Better cognitive competence
Better cognitive competence, greater achievement and school completion, better vocational outcomes, fewer conduct problems and arrests
Better cognitive problem-solving skills, fewer behavior problems
Weikart and
Schweinhart, 1992,
1986 Weikart and
Schweinhart, 1987,
1984
Shure and Spivack, 1982,1979
Elementary-Age Children
Assertiveness Training Program (program 1)
Universal/ Early behavior problems,
N=343 academic failure
Improved social assertiveness, improved academic performance
Rotheram, 1982
(continued)tes, there are disproportionately high rates of low-birthweight babies in some racial and ethnic groups, particularly among African-Americans (Center for the Study of Social Policy, 1992). Low-birthweight babies constitute about 60 percent of all infant deaths. Those babies that survive often do so with major lifelong disorders, such as mental retardation and cerebral palsy, as well as behavioral, emotional, and learning problems (IOM, 1985). There is also some preliminary limited evidence that pregnancy and birth complications may play a role in later development of schizophrenia (see Chapter 6). Improving prenatal and perinatal care and delivering this care to all pregnantgh-quality prenatals important for evaluating the degree risk factor andndra, V.; Fratiglioni, L.; Graves, A. B.; Heyman, A.; Jorm, A. F.; Kokmen, E.; Kondo, K.; Mortimer, J. A.; Rocca, W. A.; Shalat, S. L.; Soininen, H.; Hofman, A. (1991) Familial aggregation of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders: A collaborative re-analysis of case-control studies. International Journal of Epidemiology; 20: S13-S20.